Dunno, I have this nagging feeling that Yarnc has some shit up his sleeve (2 hatch mutas maybe?) and will manage to take a game off Flash. Backho blows, and Fantasy is fucking good at TvP. Who'd pick a zerg over the Red Sniper? By.Hero is an enigma however. The guy at times has some fucking worldclass play, but other times just fails to do anything significant. It's hard to predict, but I'm hoping he's got some good stuff ready for Leta and his lame paper airplanes.
yarnc using 2 hatch mutas wouldnt be a surprise in the least. Id laugh if he did something even gayer to flash for putting him in that hellhole of a group.
Flash < YellOw[ArnC] Gut feeling for this one, especially after seing how day 1 turned out for the favorites. That Yellow play vs Protoss maybe be the inspiration Zergs needed to play this map.
fantasy > BackHo Safest pick of the night, fantasy's TvP + RotK
Hwasin > ZerO Hwasin is hot right now, Zero is fail right now, do the maths
by.hero > Leta Another gut feeling here. I think by.hero's ridiculous APM can be Leta's wraiths counter. Besides, Zergs are baller and stuff, but I am quite sure by.hero didn't pick Leta without a reason.
Flash > YellOw[ArnC] Flash is a monster and I don't like yarnc one bit. fantasy > BackHo I am an SKT fan because of 3 people, July, Oov and Boxer... Fantasy is none of these 3. Hwasin > ZerO Zero seems to have fallen off the map lately and Hwasin is a great player. by.hero > Leta By.Hero seems like a great player I mean come on; he's July's apprentice for christ's sake and although Leta plays some great terran pure fanboyism gives this one to By.Hero
Flash v Yarnc is going to be GOOD. I just have to stay up for that. I am also excited about hwasin v zero and hero v leta both should be great. Fantasy v BackHo would be oh so delicious if BackHo won lol.
Terran sweep yo. I really hope Yarnc has been practicing against that Goliath Bio build as I would like to see its evolution past the midgame timing attack.
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14:28 FLAMBOYANT : guys 14:28 FLAMBOYANT : im getting on iccup 14:28 jtype : that tetris was intense 14:28 FLAMBOYANT : and whispering kona 14:28 theKOT : That four-second tetris game was insane 14:29 iChoBo : I'm on iCCup 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : to badmouth him 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : watch out for my id: abstruse 14:29 iChoBo : I just whispered him 14:29 buttcheekz : oh kona 14:29 iChoBo : watch 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : see if u see me 14:29 iChoBo : watch 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : im gnona BM kona live 14:29 iChoBo : I am 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : watch out for me 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : brb im going on iccup now 14:29 iChoBo : flam 14:29 jtype : swet 14:29 FLAMBOYANT : im gonna say HI TEAMLIQUID 14:29 jtype : gogogogo 14:29 NightHawk : no no 14:29 NightHawk : say "im in gosugamers.net" 14:29 jtype : ^^ 14:30 iChoBo : haha 14:30 iChoBo : he squelched me 14:30 Catalyst : gg 14:30 Catalyst : gg] 14:30 NightHawk : it will *** him 14:30 jonnyp : lol 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : rofl 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : i did it 14:30 iChoBo : hahaha 14:30 theKOT : poor kona 14:30 iChoBo : Ihe already squelched me 14:30 iChoBo : now he squelched you 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : *** 14:30 Catalyst : ban inc 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : he squelched me 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : kk now to logg of iccup 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : that was worth the fun 14:30 FLAMBOYANT : letme get on my other smurf 14:31 jtype : lol 14:31 FLAMBOYANT : brb im gonna cuss 14:31 iChoBo : haha 14:31 FLAMBOYANT : the id is rage.within 14:31 FLAMBOYANT : brb 14:31 iChoBo : whoat build should I do 14:32 jonnyp : what race? 14:32 iChoBo : I was going to go p 14:32 iChoBo : but he'll ban me 14:32 NightHawk : proxy 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : ROFL 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : HE SQUELCHED ME AGAIN 14:32 iChoBo : lol 14:32 iChoBo : I guess I'll play t 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : funnay =D 14:32 iChoBo : cause he'll ban me 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : lmfao 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : dude 14:32 FLAMBOYANT : add him to ur friends list 14:32 iChoBo : if I go p 14:32 iChoBo : I did 14:33 FLAMBOYANT : whisper him and say "im confident ill win against u noob singaporean" 14:33 FLAMBOYANT : he always accepts 14:33 jtype : rofl 14:33 FLAMBOYANT : then 4pool 14:33 jtype : poor Kona 14:33 iChoBo : he has do not disturb mode on 14:33 FLAMBOYANT : nah 14:33 jonnyp : bbs 14:33 theKOT : I concur jtype 14:33 buttcheekz : do nuke rush if you go t 14:33 FLAMBOYANT : proxy gate in his base if u do manage to faceh im 14:34 jtype : i hope nobody whispers or chats to Combat ex in his game with chill 14:34 FLAMBOYANT : ROFL 14:34 FLAMBOYANT : IM SO GOING TO DO THAT 14:34 jtype : nah dont 14:34 FLAMBOYANT : y 14:34 FFFF : tanks should have 4 pop 14:34 jtype : it will just give him an excuse for losing 14:34 FLAMBOYANT : fine -.- 14:34 FLAMBOYANT : rofl 14:35 buttcheekz : waaaaa tanks imba 14:35 jtype : I cant play this game cos I'm so famous and people keep whispering me 14:35 FFFF : yep 14:35 jtype : i've got like 400APM just on chat 14:35 iChoBo : aka 14:35 iChoBo : you spam ^^ 14:35 jtype : lol I was being Combat Ex 14:35 FLAMBOYANT : rofl 14:35 FLAMBOYANT : nice impersonation 14:35 iChoBo : lol 14:36 iChoBo : I'm 1-0 vs Combat 14:36 jonnyp : doesnt always come across lol 14:36 iChoBo : 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : dude someone seriouslyn eeds to *** go carriers against these live streamers 14:36 jtype : hahaha 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : or bad mouth them the entire time 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : or atleast hide pylons or some *** 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : so it takes forever to find 14:36 jtype : I always go carriers on desti 14:36 jtype : even if I go arbs too 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : =p 14:36 iChoBo : I'm going to 14:36 jtype : 14:36 iChoBo : hmm 14:36 FLAMBOYANT : whens chill comingb ack 14:36 iChoBo : what should I do 14:36 iChoBo : seriously 14:36 iChoBo : all the good chese builds are toss 14:37 iChoBo : and he'll ban me 14:37 jtype : 4pool 14:37 iChoBo : he walls 14:37 jtype : bba 14:37 jtype : bbs* lol 14:37 buttcheekz : float a rax into his base 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : kona is 1-6 wow 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : 1 win 6 losses 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : he's D- 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : -.- 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : this season is getting harder 14:37 HappyFeet : hai thare 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : hi 14:37 iChoBo : no hr'd F+ 14:37 FLAMBOYANT : =p 14:37 jtype : what? 14:37 iChoBo : he's D+ 14:37 jtype : he's 23 - 29 14:37 iChoBo : vsing only D's 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : kona's gonna lose 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : he has one expo 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : starved out main 14:38 buttcheekz : he's gonna lose this one too if he don't expo 14:38 iChoBo : so 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : rofl butt 14:38 buttcheekz : toot 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : ... 14:38 iChoBo : holy mutalisks 14:38 HappyFeet : it's his own fault for going mech 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : GG 14:38 FLAMBOYANT : its GG 14:38 jonnyp : reagequit? 14:38 jonnyp : darn 14:38 buttcheekz : 1a2a3a mutas 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : OH MY GOD 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : NOT THE ANIME SCREEN 14:39 FFFF : i hate terrans, you cant do all these gloriosus charges you do with toss and zerg 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : someone seriously needs to browser porn while they're streaming 14:39 HappyFeet : lol 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : kona left? 14:39 NightHawk : lol 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : hes gone? 14:39 JulyZerg : nooo? 14:39 HappyFeet : maybe bathroom? 14:39 iChoBo : he's there 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : hes jacking off in admiration of his anime screen 14:39 iChoBo : still online 14:39 HappyFeet : even kona goes to the bathroom 14:39 Catalyst : i would 14:39 FLAMBOYANT : ROFL 14:40 FLAMBOYANT : even singapoeran translators are human 14:40 HappyFeet : i am 14:40 iChoBo : 1v1 D/D+ MOTW 14:40 iChoBo : is that what he names his games? 14:40 Catalyst : replace motw with come 14:40 HappyFeet : usually 14:40 iChoBo : ok 14:41 HappyFeet : this stream iz tha best strum eva 14:41 iChoBo has been banned by the moderator. 14:41 FFFF has been banned by the moderator. 14:42 Catalyst : saw that coming 14:42 NightHawk : lol? 14:42 buttcheekz has been banned by the moderator. 14:42 HappyFeet : the hammer of justice 14:42 Smoke : hm :o 14:42 Catalyst : they spamming him in game 14:42 jtype has been banned by the moderator. 14:43 HappyFeet : what's happening? lol 14:43 Catalyst : are you gonna play anymore kona? 14:43 konadora : no
Unless people are willing to help me moderate my stream
On June 26 2009 16:29 konadora wrote: Doesn't change the fact that there are so many assholes out there
I'm still considering
TBH, my own mindset would be "who the hell cares?"
You're really going to let some punks get the best of you? If you honestly don't want to stream, then don't. But if you want to, I wouldn't let it get to you. No matter how bad it gets.
I know there are like more people who enjoy my stream than those who bitch about it, but it's that little minority that just drags you down and drains your energy away. I'm thinking of adding moderators
Please dun stop streaming kona. For the less privileged like myself, I would really appreciate if ud keep streaming. ESP now that the starleague season is just getting interesting
On June 26 2009 13:41 stafu wrote: Wow what an awesome Terran line-up; Flash fantasy Hwasin Leta. Coincidentally, they're my predictions for tonight :>
Yeah, I would be scared if I belonged to one of the other races.
I used Kona's stream once or twice only, but when i did, i was surprised how many retards are there spamming random crap in all colors of the rainbow.Just turn it off man (chat) and problem's solved.The fact that these people are mostly from TL made me sad
Yeah kona the people in your chat today were jerks. I was there, but I left before it got personal. I really hope you continue streaming. I enjoyed watching, and your sense of humor is pretty awesome(Indian thriller, the tetris chat, etc).
Aaaaaaaaaanyway on topic... 3 TvZs? Flash Fantasy Hwasin Yarnac and by.hero playing? Looks like I'm not going to sleep tonight either. This is the best set of matchups since I started following the proscene closely.
As long as Flash's special build isn't 14cc, he'll win. Fantasy should beat backho due to TvP being a good matchup for him. Hwasin should beat ZerO due to awesome. Leta should be by.hero due to stats.
Finally at least one of my predictions will be incorrect, because it wouldn't be the OSL without crazy upsets.
There's a lot of shit in Kona's streams. For some reason, trying to ignore it is hard, so I've just stopped watching unless it's the only thing available, using uusee instead. Kinda sad, I liked it when not as many ppl joined and the convos were actually on the game and productive (instead of 50 fucktards yelling THE STOVE!!! or BISUUUU SUXXXX FANBOIS!). I can imagine Kona's frustration though, he clears the chat, starts kicking ppl that are being idiots, but it starts again 30 seconds later.
On June 26 2009 17:34 Itachii wrote: I used Kona's stream once or twice only, but when i did, i was surprised how many retards are there spamming random crap in all colors of the rainbow.Just turn it off man (chat) and problem's solved.The fact that these people are mostly from TL made me sad
there are retards everywhere, its just that they are being banned here. Plus i saw the link to konadora's steam in another website so they may not be from tl.
Wow interesting..yellow choses to go over pool/gas in response to the proxy rax into fact build flash is using recently. This could be tough for flash. The early speedlings that is.
Flash being tricky and making a nearly completed depot to block his choke without finishing it Flash making a factory Commentator making ridiculous noise Yarnac scouting map with lings
Flash's overall build was fine , but he shoulve realized the earlier timing on the spire and prepared extra turrets. He could've cut scvs, turreted a little more, and easily rolled yarnc with a better econ.
Yarnc just totally exploited Flash having prepared a build by using one that there was almost no way for Flash to have encountered in practice, basically abused the timing.
Why are you people surprised many voted for Flash? It's Flash ffs. No matter how good yarnc's zvt is, it is still Flash we are talking about. I hate people who vote for the guy with lesser votes and show it off feeling like a prophet or something.
That being said. Flash played dumb, he scouted everything and he shouldve known by now yarnc's playstyle. I think he was too inclined to do his "special build" bullshit instead of adjusting to yarnc's build.
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
...No.
Flash's TvZ is 14-3 this year, with losses to Jaedong, Effort, and one to Oversky on Battle Royale.
It was really smart play by Yarnc. He basically figured Flash wouldn't do any sort of early game pressure build (especially since Flash has done it against Hoejja in GOM on the same map) and exploited that to get pretty much the fastest possible (2 Hatch) Muta timing. The disappointing part is that Flash, even having seen the Spire, still didn't do a better job defending it. Perhaps he thought Yarnc was faking it and going to go for a speedling break or something, but it was an ugly, ugly way to go.
Now Flash has a long road to advance, he basically must beat JD and Effort (too much to hope for JD to go 3-0 and Yarnc to also beat Effort).
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
On June 26 2009 19:03 Djabanete wrote: that is the first time i've ever seen a booth girl do something besides stand there.
leans forward and talks to fantasy.
"psst, i'm off work at 9..."
Actually, in context and according to what the announcers said, she just told him to hurry up and get ready, and he did. And it's not like fantasy's Bisu or great or Jaedong or something. :3
On June 26 2009 19:02 HuskyTheHusky wrote: haha this new intro is so bad
bad is too appreciative, its horrible... the song is horrible too... it's like the intros get worse every season... i remember they used to be cool T_T
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
Reavershuttle about to hit fantasy - BUT HE HAS A WRAITH.
Shuttle took quite a bit of damage! Huge break with Reaver/Goon,m fantasy hardpressed to hold, repairs a bunker frantically. 3 Goons left. Two retreat as survivors, fantasy holds.
Why doesn't protoss just expand faster then the terran ? BackHo is going to be miles behind after his shit fails . wraith is so weak should have could it before the shuttle died ...
On June 26 2009 19:03 geod wrote: Yarn always has better chance of winning. Flash's ZvsT is so so at best. He was raped many times in BO war by Luxury, GGPlay ...
BackHo placing his double Nexus just now, so fantasy will have an advantage for a bit. Dropship building, spotted by an observer. Fantasy ferrying an SCV to the Minonly inside his base. Vultures start roaming the map for easy kills and find the third base.
On June 26 2009 19:08 Kaolla wrote: bad is too appreciative, its horrible... the song is horrible too... it's like the intros get worse every season... i remember they used to be cool T_T
best intro was after ggplay win an awesome comics style intro with incredible song song was RJA^ in fates hands
Fantasy naturally taking the minonly inside his base. Backho on 3 base now and slowly catchig up in supply. Tanks in ship and vultures heading for that third. Excellent Dropship control by fantasy there. Mines are decimating the goons. But he loses his dropship with 2 tanks!
Fantasy going 4-6 facs now. Backho barely on 4 gateways, he should be adding more soon. So far, Backho is withstanding the harass not too shabbily, but he is still behind in supply and economy. Vultures going for the third again, together with single dropship.
Lol Aesop: "Slow catching up in supply"...Protoss should never be catching up in supply with T in the EARLY GAME. Backho is fucked unless fantasy makes a huge mistake.
fantasy moving towards the plateau in the middle of the map with a large tank / vulture force. Backho has added speedzeal to his army. Backho engages the push head on! fantasy doesnt even siege much. HUGE MINEDRAG KILLS MANY TANKS.
But still Backho is behind, but not as much anymore.
Fantasy must have 10+ factories running. Backho has teched for arbiters and building the first two. Push is stalled for now, but Vultures arrive at the third again. Take down a cannon, kill some probes before being disposed off. Main push heading for Backho's natural now.
Hard contain at the natural's doorstep now. Bottom right probably running, and fantasy has one more CC building even. FIrst tanks siege up close to the nexus. Backho abusing invisible Zealots to drag mines into tanks.
Backho rallying up what will probably be his last push, but fantasy ahead by like 20 supply. good stasis on some back tanks. Zealots try to break out, but looks like even those few troops can hold. Backho broken down now.
Backho played the last part of that game pretty well, not that it mattered. I still think fantasy could have won more quickly by skipping the drop play and timing his push earlier. Great game from Fantasy though, really fun to watch.
... the only way for Aiur is the lame way at the start, with plain opening / standard game P is starting 2 lost MU (PvT and PvZ). Sad truth for Aiur :-(
Anyway, skill difference here was huge so the outcome of this game was clear beside deeper considerations ...
On June 26 2009 19:24 Orbifold wrote: Backho played the last part of that game pretty well, not that it mattered. I still think fantasy could have won more quickly by skipping the drop play and timing his push earlier. Great game from Fantasy though, really fun to watch.
He definitely could have won more quickly, but I don't think fast pushes are his style. He was in 0 risk of losing after the failed attack if he just stuck to his vulture/drop harass + expand strategy.
On June 26 2009 19:24 Crunchums wrote: Fuck rotk, there are like 4 small areas on that entire map where a protoss army can engage a terran army and not be at a huge disadvantage.
nah
backho could have recalled on top of fantasy's tanks and he still would have lost that game
On June 26 2009 19:24 Orbifold wrote: Backho played the last part of that game pretty well, not that it mattered. I still think fantasy could have won more quickly by skipping the drop play and timing his push earlier. Great game from Fantasy though, really fun to watch.
Horrible Idea..thats just adding a huge amount of risk for absolutely no reason. Why not just take the easy third and add dropship play since it's really strong on ROTK anyways? Much more solid.
If protoss micros extremely well they can break the timing push and then you won't be able to catch up. No reason for a player as good as fantasy at tvp to play that way.
On June 26 2009 19:13 Gustav_Wind wrote: Backho's vs Z has been looking sharper than his vT as of late...
FailHo's still just a noob though, so w\e.
I have no idea why he won the "most likely upset" poll T_T
backho can upset anyone and anything
i bet he could upset a counterstrike or war3 tournament, he's just that way.
Yea I don't know what the deal is with BackHo. He's a relatively solid player mechanically, but he makes so many mistakes all over the place. He seems to get lucky and make mistakes that give him the game way too often, and only when he is playing gamers everyone wants to move on.
On June 26 2009 19:13 Gustav_Wind wrote: Backho's vs Z has been looking sharper than his vT as of late...
FailHo's still just a noob though, so w\e.
I have no idea why he won the "most likely upset" poll T_T
backho can upset anyone and anything
i bet he could upset a counterstrike or war3 tournament, he's just that way.
Yea I don't know what the deal is with BackHo. He's a relatively solid player mechanically, but he makes so many mistakes all over the place. He seems to get lucky and make mistakes that give him the game way too often, and only when he is playing gamers everyone wants to move on.
which upsets are you talking about? The only ones I remember are in his EVER OSL run in 2008. were they in GOM or something?
Urgh today will be a bad day for me. I love Flash, dislike Fantasy, Like Zero and love by.hero. =\ and of course Flash loses and all the terrans besides flash wil prolly win.
On June 26 2009 19:29 TwoToneTerran wrote: Urgh today will be a bad day for me. I love Flash, dislike Fantasy, Like Zero and love by.hero. =\ and of course Flash loses and all the terrans besides flash wil prolly win.
Same here except I'm pretty neutral towards both Zero and Hwasin..
On June 26 2009 19:13 Gustav_Wind wrote: Backho's vs Z has been looking sharper than his vT as of late...
FailHo's still just a noob though, so w\e.
I have no idea why he won the "most likely upset" poll T_T
backho can upset anyone and anything
i bet he could upset a counterstrike or war3 tournament, he's just that way.
Yea I don't know what the deal is with BackHo. He's a relatively solid player mechanically, but he makes so many mistakes all over the place. He seems to get lucky and make mistakes that give him the game way too often, and only when he is playing gamers everyone wants to move on.
I missed the game, what was flash's o so special build that he preped? anyway now he lost he has to beat jaedong and effort to get through, i think he can do it but idk why he was so stupid and didnt pick someone like canata who he could have owned easily rather than yarnc who always upsets him T_T
On June 26 2009 19:37 Scaramanga wrote: I missed the game, what was flash's o so special build that he preped? anyway now he lost he has to beat jaedong and effort to get through, i think he can do it but idk why he was so stupid and didnt pick someone like canata who he could have owned easily rather than yarnc who always upsets him T_T
cause he aint a pussy like Bisu and Fantasy (ok, not so much fantasy)
On June 26 2009 19:37 Scaramanga wrote: I missed the game, what was flash's o so special build that he preped? anyway now he lost he has to beat jaedong and effort to get through, i think he can do it but idk why he was so stupid and didnt pick someone like canata who he could have owned easily rather than yarnc who always upsets him T_T
1 golliath 1 valkery 1 turret , Yarnc rolled him with 2 hat mutas .
On June 26 2009 19:29 HuskyTheHusky wrote: korea really needs to get some better FPS... why do they all look like they're from early 2000?
Cause koreans h8 lag
graphics have nothing to do with lag tho...
yes they do?
not really unless you play something your comp cant handle... but korean computer can easily handle better gfx (just look at all the mmos out there).. its not like we're requesting a crysis right away >.<
On June 26 2009 19:37 Scaramanga wrote: I missed the game, what was flash's o so special build that he preped? anyway now he lost he has to beat jaedong and effort to get through, i think he can do it but idk why he was so stupid and didnt pick someone like canata who he could have owned easily rather than yarnc who always upsets him T_T
No "special build" really got shown. Flash tried to go Goliaths and Valks but Yarnc built like 4 lings total and went STRAIGHT to Spire at pretty much the fastest possible 2 Hatch timing and just overwhelmed Flash with Mutas.
The disappointing thing was that Flash scouted the Spire timing with an SCV and was just late on Turrets (Ebay ready and everything).
Flash had turrets, just not enough. He was obviously counting on his first valk comming out just as mutas arrived, but the timing suprised him(even though it really shouldn't have) and the mutas came before the valk was out. As a result the small amount of spread out turrets werent enough to protect the first 2 gols from being sniped and after that the valk was easy to pick off...game over.
only one mo' game until the interesting match of the night
flash vs yarnc was funny, fantasy vs backho was basically an exhibition match featuring fantasy's tvp, this match will be entertaining i'm sure, but leta vs by,hero will answer some questions by golly
Ya I think leta vs hero is the most interesting match also. Mainly because I want to see if leta has the balls to open 2 port wraith again. Despite knowing that hero would be practicing a ton against it and all the talk at the group selection.
On June 26 2009 19:44 Ilikestarcraft wrote: did hwasin put his rax under the dweb incase drones scout it his scv will be under dweb and drone cant fire at it?
On June 26 2009 19:44 Ilikestarcraft wrote: did hwasin put his rax under the dweb incase drones scout it his scv will be under dweb and drone cant fire at it?
lol..damn that ling almost got in. THat wouldve basically ended the game. Hwasins only hope is catching zero completely off guard with this 2 rax acad timing.
On June 26 2009 19:49 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: Instead hwasin dicks around and decides to go for 2 rax tank. I guess seeing the den made him change his plans.
On June 26 2009 19:49 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: Instead hwasin dicks around and decides to go for 2 rax tank. I guess seeing the den made him change his plans.
He saw the den?
Well he either scaned the den or he scaned the 2 hydras at the front. Either way...
lurker contain (4) in place, most mutas still alive but low HP, more zerglings on the way, science vessel is out as well as tank, fairly large mnm army from hwasin but still running off one base
On June 26 2009 19:50 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: I smell muta rape. Ok no 2 rax tank..no idea what the fuck hwasin is doing lol.
Prob fast vessel.
Yea I figured...I just think its kind of a stupid idea.
Nope it isnt, He didnt scout the mutas since he was saving scans for 2hat lurk not knowing zero is going muta, so he had to play safe and get tank. Zero played this really smart and abused the fact that Hwasin wont use his scans.
On June 26 2009 19:50 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: I smell muta rape. Ok no 2 rax tank..no idea what the fuck hwasin is doing lol.
Prob fast vessel.
Yea I figured...I just think its kind of a stupid idea.
Nope it isnt, He didnt scout the mutas since he was saving scans for 2hat lurk not knowing zero is going muta, so he had to play safe and get tank. Zero played this really smart and abused the fact that Hwasin wont use his scans.
Leapfroguuuuu! Zero re-established his lurker contain outside Hwasin's natural, he should have swarm ready long before Hwasin can push him. Zero has a queen, too.
Hwasin can take consolation in his 6 vessels, but not much else. He'd probably be dead if Zero would just bring some damn defilers already. Hwasin cleared his entrance - a defiler is here.
Hwasins best chance would've been to do some type of all in early on after the huge disadvantage from the failed bunker (thanks to zeros amazingly perfect defense of it.)
That was a horrible, horrible game by hwasin. I can't remember when I last saw him playing THAT bad. He was on 3 rax with over 1500 minerals like half game for crying out loud. ><
granted, hwasin was not up to par, but damn was it entertaining - I held my breath every time I saw an infested approach the terran ball hoping it'd explode
the "GG/gg" rule only applies to the loser which signals his surrender
GOD!!!!!!!!! IT DOSN'T MATTER WHAT THE WINNER TYPES.
I was wondering about that, someone typed ggh in a game I saw recently but he was the winner too and I guess I'd have heard more "KESPA IS SCREWING US AGAIN" if it had disqualified him.
On June 26 2009 20:20 infinity2k9 wrote: i dunno if he was just playing around but zero didnt exactly play well that game. half of his army was at relay points for the entire game.
Actually, it didn't need to be anywhere else, so he kept his army there just in case Hwasin used dropships again (he didn't).
On June 26 2009 20:20 infinity2k9 wrote: i dunno if he was just playing around but zero didnt exactly play well that game. half of his army was at relay points for the entire game.
You try microing lurk/ling/defiler and infesteds and see how you do Just macroing while doing it is impressive enough.
Poll: Will Leta go 2 port wraith in another TvZ? (Vote): Yes, just like how best goes 2 base arbs in PvT. (Vote): Yes, just like how Rock goes 2 base carrs in PvT
Vultures depopulate the main, some drones escape. Now cleaning the nat, drones run again. Hydras out, vultures no longer very effective. Pick a few more drones.
Koreans on iccup always do that... send a early SVC and build a Factory or lift the factory on your base... is anoying and all but for me a D+ Zerg... -.-
he said in all the games leta played on outsider and went 2 port he walled with a fact. He said if by.hero studied letas game he would have noticed and would suspect something else like a proxy.
Lol, a standoff between lurkers and a dropship load of M&M in hero's main. He can't take his extractor back, and Leta's being a dick with eraser vessels...
On June 26 2009 20:53 aznanimedude wrote: lmao i jumped like 400 points in LB from 800ish ti 400ish thanks to leta xD w00t current streak, 1 correct vote \o/
On June 26 2009 20:55 Ilikestarcraft wrote: i can imagine what it must be like to be a zerg on hite
you have to be the punching bag for leta
haha, well imagine jaedongs team lol
getting mauled by mutalisks 8 hours a day ;;
I have a fun time imagining that every game on the Hwaseung house is as much of a rapefest as JD vs Lomo on Katrina, If the games are like that, he would certainly have something like 95% winrate in the house, and 100% winrate ZvZ, JD even claims his ZvP live is half as good as him in practice.
On June 26 2009 20:55 Ilikestarcraft wrote: i can imagine what it must be like to be a zerg on hite
you have to be the punching bag for leta
haha, well imagine jaedongs team lol
getting mauled by mutalisks 8 hours a day ;;
I have a fun time imagining that every game on the Hwaseung house is as much of a rapefest as JD vs Lomo on Katrina, If the games are like that, he would certainly have something like 95% winrate in the house, and 100% winrate ZvZ, JD even claims his ZvP live is half as good as him in practice.
lol yeah with zergs like ggaemo and killer to practice with, how do you lose XD
On June 26 2009 21:03 Jayme wrote: This OSL is slowly but surely starting to depress me.
Why? The games have been pretty decent so far, even the last 2 rapefests were really entertaining.
Edit: Oh CJ fan I see, 0-2 / OGN fans,if exist, should be pretty happy with the rape their players are bringing to the tourney, 3 players upsetted so far and the favourite didnt dissapoint.
Man, I didn't see the game, but reading the live-report, what was Flash thinking?! It seems like he likes to pull out these weird builds that suck for important games. Like that 2-base really really slow push that got him eliminated from last OSL against Best.
On June 26 2009 21:46 SimonB wrote: Man, I didn't see the game, but reading the live-report, what was Flash thinking?! It seems like he likes to pull out these weird builds that suck for important games. Like that 2-base really really slow push that got him eliminated from last OSL against Best.
Flash literally would've won had he put up turrets. All he had to do was stall for the valks and gols to come. He even saw the spire timing, early lair, and expansion before his scout died. He knew exactly when and what was coming, but only got up like 2 turrets to stop 2hat muta. it was embarrassing.
I just woke up in time to see the last game, man that must have been hard to swallow for by.hero just getting destroyed like that. =o Bummer about flash and hwasin. :/
wow in the group selection thread someone said that flash made a mistake by picking fakeyellow. guess he was right. flash jeadong i'd say 50/50, flash effort maybe 60/40. so i guess flash has only a 30% chance to make it as i cant see jeadong or effort lose their zvz against yellow
On June 26 2009 23:47 Ilikestarcraft wrote: game 4 should come with a warning for zergs
Heh true. On iccup I make it a point to scout with a zergling around the perimeter of my base on a consistant basis against modern T(sometimes I forget if im distracted by a really good T).
There's like 3 spots T can proxy a fact on destination that can fuck you. Its a pain..I used to just check the most common one and be like oh ok good im safe from that..then sure enough vults start showing up from somewhere else...
On June 26 2009 20:35 Ilikestarcraft wrote: commentator is pretty smart
he said in all the games leta played on outsider and went 2 port he walled with a fact. He said if by.hero studied letas game he would have noticed and would suspect something else like a proxy.
Wow, I noticed this post didn't get a lot of attention.
On June 26 2009 21:03 Jayme wrote: This OSL is slowly but surely starting to depress me.
Why? The games have been pretty decent so far, even the last 2 rapefests were really entertaining.
Edit: Oh CJ fan I see, 0-2 / OGN fans,if exist, should be pretty happy with the rape their players are bringing to the tourney, 3 players upsetted so far and the favourite didnt dissapoint.
Everyone I am of a fan is losing lol.
Flash, Effort, Hwasin, By.hero... though Leta is ok not a big deal.
the Yarnc/Luxury bro's I don't like at all though so everytime they win I get sad, doubly so if over one of my favorites
On June 26 2009 21:07 konadora wrote: So, what games are recommend worthy?
I say game 3 and 4
I would never watch game 3 as a VOD without skipping some parts or else it'd be such a waste of time. It's like these games you can only enjoy it while watching live or something :p
On June 26 2009 23:42 Djin)ftw( wrote: wow in the group selection thread someone said that flash made a mistake by picking fakeyellow. guess he was right. flash jeadong i'd say 50/50, flash effort maybe 60/40. so i guess flash has only a 30% chance to make it as i cant see jeadong or effort lose their zvz against yellow
If flash beats effort and yarnc goes 0-2 flash isn't eliminated. He can either beat jaedong or beat effort + yarnc in a tiebreaker, so he still has a pretty good chance of qualifying.
On June 27 2009 02:26 SuperArc wrote: I think yarnc's weird build countered flash's build
Yeah afaik from watching the Youku VOD, a normal 2 hat muta timing (12 hat, 11 pool, 10 gas) was what Flash prepared for and Yarnc went for a slightly earlier, ZvZ-esque, muta build that seemed to completely throw Flash off guard. He probably did not encounter it in practice at all.
Yeah knowing Flash, his build would have been a precise counter against the normal 2hatch build since someone said 5 seconds more and Flash would have won the game.
why is it that bot youtube accounts take so long to upload OSL VODs compared to MSL/PL ? There has to be a reason thats not "just didn't get to it" right?
wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
haha yeah, that was hilarious. I pitied hero for a second, but then I remembered that a) by.hero has recently beaten Bisu and BeSt (and therefore must die) and b) hero selected Leta for his group, so he deserved a loss.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
haha yeah, that was hilarious. I pitied hero for a second, but then I remembered that a) by.hero has recently beaten Bisu and BeSt (and therefore must die) and b) hero selected Leta for his group, so he deserved a loss.
On June 28 2009 02:06 justiceknight wrote: they are playing the new version of holy world right? can i have a look at the picture and whats the difference
It's harder to glitch units through the mineral walls near player's bases since the minerals don't make a neat little pocket like this anymore: oooominzooo minzooominz
Besides that, I heard somewhere that you can't proxy hatch in the new version, just like on neomedusa. Koreans seem to really dislike proxy hatcheries for some reason.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
Keep in mind Leta was only able to do this because he scouted his opponent on the first try.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
Keep in mind Leta was only able to do this because he scouted his opponent on the first try.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
Keep in mind Leta was only able to do this because he scouted his opponent on the first try.
On June 27 2009 11:05 Trezeguet23 wrote: wow, what an unbelievebly abusive strat by Leta! There was a thread about crowd/commentator reactions, and the match had some really funny/neat ones when by.hero would send his hydra back and forth just out of sight of the fac in his base.
Keep in mind Leta was only able to do this because he scouted his opponent on the first try.
33% chance.
No, it's a 3 player map and even if it only worked if you scouted the opponent of the first try, it would be 50/50 like how Terrans bunker rush on Medusa. However, Leta scouts the opposing zerg by checking for the presence of creep, which extends beyond the hatchery, so he can scout the opponents covertly, meaning he can do his build 100% of the time.
Foreverawr write that comment 2 hours and ago and now 5 people decide to post at the same time? Wtf timing.
Oh my bad outsider is 3 players I never play on it.
Also I missed the very first part of the game. So leta scouted it second...wow?
In that case that was pretty terrible by hero to not notice something was up.
And ya I know he scouts by checking for creep, thats very common. What ISN'T ok is the scout timing of letas second scv. It was late...quite late for a first scout. Hero should've noticed this.
On June 28 2009 11:06 TheFoReveRwaR wrote: Oh my bad outsider is 3 players I never play on it.
Also I missed the very first part of the game. So leta scouted it second...wow?
In that case that was pretty terrible by hero to not notice something was up.
And ya I know he scouts by checking for creep, thats very common. What ISN'T ok is the scout timing of letas second scv. It was late...quite late for a first scout. Hero should've noticed this.
It really looked like the scv was in view of the Overlord, but who knows.